Loving the Earth
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011My brother Steven sent me a link to a great article today. Sue Flood, an “award-winning photographer and wildlife film-maker” who has been taking pictures in the Arctic and Antarctica for 20 years, found an emperor penguin chick with a love heart bib. I love hearts in nature; I think it shows that love is [...]
The Great White
Monday, February 28th, 2011I don’t know why people are so frightened of Maine winters. Yes, it’s cold… but it’s winter! Bundle up and you’ll be fine! I have been loving this, my first Maine winter, mostly because of the abundance of beautiful, sparkling white snow!! After a fairly long stretch of no snow, during which the snow mounds [...]
Magical Maine Winter
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011When telling people that I was moving to Maine (from New Jersey), just about every single person’s reply was something along the lines of, “The winters are cooooold!” or “Good luck surviving those dark, frigid winters!” So far, I am not only surviving the Maine winter, but I’m loving it! Albiet, it’s only January. Still, [...]
“We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job.”
Saturday, January 15th, 2011I was just perusing some of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes cartoons (which is BY FAR my favorite cartoon), and stumbled upon this one. Think about THAT for a minute (or ten). (click the picture to view the cartoon larger). Thanks to the Progressive Boink blog for bringing this one to my attention.
Book Review: The Last American Man
Monday, September 27th, 2010During my first 10 minutes of relaxation (aka the first ten minutes of Maddie’s nap), I finally finished the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. The book is, as one Amazon reviewer stated, “a fascinating book about an extraordinary but troubled man”, namely Eustace Conway. Despite her over-emphasis on his love life (which [...]
Escaping the Heat
Friday, September 3rd, 2010When we moved to Maine from New Jersey, I really thought we’d be escaping the 90+ degree, 100+% humidity summer days. I was hoping more for dry, cool breezy, 80 degree sun-shiney Maine summer days! While we have had an absolutely GORGEOUS summer this year (I really can’t complain one bit), the past few days [...]
Autumn Yearning
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Mother Nature works in wondrous ways: I was really bummed at how quickly the summer flew by, but after three consecutive sweltering hot 90+ degree days, I’m definitely looking forward to autumn weather! Woo hah! Bring it on! (Not that the forecast calls for any cool temps any time soon!) I will fully enjoy the [...]
Loving Cloth Diapering (or CDing, if you use the lingo)!
Monday, August 30th, 2010I started Maddie in cloth diapers for a number of reasons, about which you can read on my post Cloth Diaper Dilemma (I was trying to figure out the ropes!). I’ve since accumulated just over 20 cloth diapers of all different brands, styles, and colors. I have pre-folds and covers, pocket diapers, fitted diapers, and [...]
Healthy Harvest
Monday, August 9th, 2010One of the benefits of having an awesome backyard (or door-yahd) garden is the copious amounts of veggies that just sit there waiting for you to harvest them. After visiting family and friends in New Jersey for a week, those veggies started to go a little crazy… especially the cucumbers. Today I went out and [...]
California Bans Single Use Plastic Bags!
Monday, July 19th, 2010I just read this post on the EcoEtsy blog and just had to share it. California has banned single use plastic bags!! I certainly hope that more and more states follow suit! Here’s the article as posted on the EcoEtsy blog: ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* AB 1998 passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, which means beginning [...]
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